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091952 1 (1980-11-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacuff0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ADDRESS BY ELMER B. STAATS COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES THE FALL SYMPOSIUM OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR BUDGET AND PROGRAM ANALYSIS d7y THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON, D.C. NOVEMBER 21, 1980 THE CONTINUING NEED FOR BUDGET REFORM3j I chose to entitle my remarks today The Continuing Need for Budget Reform to underscore my conviction that we can never be satisfied for long with existing budget concepts and practices. One thing clearly stands out over the last several decades--that is, the budget system's constantly changing nature needs periodic reexamination and renewal. We last looked at basic budget concepts in the mid-1960's, and then, in the 1970's, we dealt with basic institutional relationships through the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act and its implementation. Such continued change makes budgeting a challenging and at times frustrating activity, as you well know. In response to the periodic need to appraise the operations of the Federal Government, including budget concepts and proce- dures, there have been several high-level studies. Prominent early examples include the work of the Brownlow committee in the late 1930's, and the first and second Hoover commissions of the 1940's and 1950's. Each of these early efforts led to certain

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